Pascal Laurent

Born in Angoulême, Charente (France) in 1956.

I live and work in Bures sur Yvette (Essonne - France)
Supports used: Paintings and collages on canvas, drawing pastel.
Work presentation:

Painting is primary the colour and the white of the canvas. Then it's an idea or a subject. It may be an idea arising from the colour on the white of the canvas, or a subject that becomes a pretext for colour on the canvas.
There are topics that inspire, motivate, encourage.
Landscapes with these invading greens that glide from yellows to blues, which climb into the sky that reach the waters, which lead to orange and red contrasts.
Self-portraits, free for drawing and colouring with a self-satisfied subject.
Free improvisations only conducted by the material and the palette.
But the subject is not the painting.
The subject is the pretext not the purpose.
So, everything can build a picture: the everyday, the humble, the ordinary become colours.
In recent years, I have great pleasure working outdoors which led me to paint mostly landscapes. I settle in solitude, in front of a landscape, alone like a fisherman with his fishing line, and for two hours I contemplate a tree, a river, a beach: smells of plants, water, sea; sound of wind, bi...

Artistic training:

• Self-taught then student of H. Adriensence (http://www.henriette-adriensence.com/), in the premises of CROUS / UPS, Orsay, for a decade.
• Facilitator of a workshop, within the framework of a Works Council, for 5 years.
• Member of the Painters Association in Vallée De Chevreuse (APEVDC). President D. Dutat (https://association-peintres-en-vallee-de-chevreuse.fr/).
• Member of the Association of Graphic and Plastic Arts Artists. President A. Lovato (https://www.lamaisondesartistes.fr)

Season 2019-2020

Collective exhibition:
• 2sd Biennale Rupificaldienne of contemporary Art – La Rochefoucault (France) July – August 2019.
• Hungarian Painting Days Foundation - Proféta Galéria, Budapest (Hungary) - October - November 2019.
• « Atelier Tissage » Chilly-Mazarin (Essonne) - Décember 2019.

Season 2018-2019

Personal exhibition:
• « Centre Marcel Pagnol » Bures sur Yvette (Essonne) - November 2018.
• « La Part des Anges » Bar à vin: Bures sur Yvette (Essonne) permanent exhibition – Portraits

Collective exhibition:
• Association APEVDC ( http://association-peintres-en-vallee-de-chevreuse.fr/ ) – Centre Culturel L. G. Pelouse - Cernay la Ville (Yvelines) - September 2018.
• “Salon d’art contemporain” - Art Graulhet ( http://art-graulhet.com/ ) – Graulhet (Tarn) - July 2018.